SNMP

After you’ve built a new storage environment you will probably want to monitor it and/or integrate the equipment in existing monitoring tools. SNMP is one of the protocols to use for this, but for some reason I always forget how to do a Cisco NX-OS SNMP v3 configuration. There’s a big difference in security between SNMP v2c and v3 and they’re configured quite differently: SNMPv2c uses community strings, SNMPv3 builds on the user accounts in the switch. This post will show you how to configure SNMP v3 in the DCNM SAN GUI and on the Cisco MDS NX-OS CLI.